Features/Additional Indic Langs

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Internationalization support for additional Indian languages

Summary

The government of India has given 22 "languages of the 8th Schedule" the status of official language. These languages are Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri/Meithei, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and English. In Fedora we already support most of these languages still there are missing languages like Manipuri, Dogri, Bodo and Santali. This is the feature to have internationalization support (Fonts, Input Method, Locale) for all these languages.

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Current status

Detailed Description

Out of 22 Official Indian languages Fedora presently supports Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Maithili.
Remaining list of India and there users as per 2001 census is as follows,

In Fedora 17 release, fedora i18n team trying to achieve this biggest milestone for Indian and provide fonts, input method and locale support for 22 official Indian languages.

Benefit to Fedora

1) Will know what are the missing things in Fedora for supporting these languages.

2) I18n support for 22 official Indian languages.

3) Due to i18n support user can go for localization for newly supported languages.

4) This huge language speaking community can use Fedora for doing work in respective language.

This is major Milestone for Fedora to support all 22 official Indian languages. In Last 5 years lots of work has been done for missing languages.
i.e.
- Getting information from linguist regarding missing things to complete language support.

- Proposals to Unicode for Adding missing characters for these languages.

- Standardization for input method.

- Preparing CLDR.

This is first time in opensource, we are achieving this milestone.

Scope

Developers need to find locale information for these languages from community, take feedback regarding missing ligatures in fonts. Develop input methods. It will not affect other components.